NOTE: I DO NOT want any more posts to this page, unless you are responding to something that I or another person wrote in the conclusions section. THANKS! (: Note part two: If you are trying to locate my classroom study, click here! (:
HEY! Okay, so I'm attempting my first poll/online experiment here and as such I would like to ask any of you lovely, willing folks out there to help me by writing on this page (NOT making a discussion, but actually writing on the page). So what do you need to write? Simple! Just write (erm... well... type...) 5 words that you associate with emotion! (the first five words/terms/phrases/whatever that you think of when I say [okay... type...] the word "emotion.") THANKS!
You're awesome!
(Note: you do not need to associate your name or colored text with this page. However, I would ask that you PLEASE go to the previously typed line and hit "enter" before writing your five words. THANKS! AGAIN!)
happy, sad, upset, angry, frustration
smile, crying, numb, empty, frustrated
distraught, shock, sadness, ticked off, elation
burn, pain, sorrow,love,sickness
anxious, depressed, lonely, dissapoint, fear
bored, annoyed, optimistic, confused, impatient
depressed, annoyed, livid, empty, tired (I feel tired could fit here in the sense of being emotionally exhausted)
Conclusions: When I got to the computer today and saw these words, I was appalled at how negative the participants were! When I categorized the words by positive, negative, and neutral, I found that 6 of the 35 participants, 17%, were positively aimed words. I also noticed that these words were typically the first or second word used in the chain of five, making me think that as soon as someone thought of a negative word, it was hard to get back on the "happy trail." Continuing on, I noticed that 23 words out of the 35, 66%, were negative and that three of these negative words (anger, sad, frustration) were repeated in the list, leading me to believe that they are common emotions felt by the participants. If you do the math, you can figure out that the remaining 6 words were neutral. Based upon these results, I wonder if our society has such a negative impact on us, that we can't even think of five positive words off the top of our heads. Furthermore, I am going to try to conduct two new (though very similar) experiments, if I am given the resources.
New Experiment 1: I would like to take a class full of people (at least 20) and give them a poll, asking what emotion they are most closely feeling between happy, sad, or neutral, followed by the same prompt that I gave above, to see how the mood they are in affects the words they create.
New Experiment 2: I would like to take a seperate class (of at least 20) and ask them to, in one minute, fill up a side of paper with as many positive words they can think of, and to do the same on the other side (with the same time constraint) with negative words.
I'm curious to use these three experiments together to figure out how the human brain interprets emotions.
(Posted by Vanessa) So what's the difference between emotions and feelings? (Posted by Sarah Beitzel) AHA! I knew this was coming. Basically, I would say that a physical feeling, such as being sick or numb (not being able to feel your fingers due to cold weather) is different from an emotion. However, an emotion is a WAY THAT YOU feel, not a feeling itself. You can feel sad. But you can't "sad." Make any sense? (posted by Mr. Gingrich) I did some research to try to find an answer to this....and, bascially, I decided that it depends on who you agree with. In 20 minutes, I found 6 different theories of the difference between feelings and emotions. In my opinion, to make things simple, I'm going to be using the words interchangeably. (posted by Andrew Martz) I don't agree with you Mr. G. I'm with Sarah. They have two separate meanings, and I don't think they should be interchanged.
Note part two: If you are trying to locate my classroom study, click here! (:
HEY! Okay, so I'm attempting my first poll/online experiment here and as such I would like to ask any of you lovely, willing folks out there to help me by writing on this page (NOT making a discussion, but actually writing on the page). So what do you need to write? Simple! Just write (erm... well... type...) 5 words that you associate with emotion! (the first five words/terms/phrases/whatever that you think of when I say [okay... type...] the word "emotion.") THANKS!
You're awesome!
(Note: you do not need to associate your name or colored text with this page. However, I would ask that you PLEASE go to the previously typed line and hit "enter" before writing your five words. THANKS! AGAIN!)
Here, I'll start:
Excitement, anger, contentment, irritation, satisfaction
happy, sad, upset, angry, frustration
smile, crying, numb, empty, frustrated
distraught, shock, sadness, ticked off, elation
burn, pain, sorrow,love,sickness
anxious, depressed, lonely, dissapoint, fear
bored, annoyed, optimistic, confused, impatient
depressed, annoyed, livid, empty, tired (I feel tired could fit here in the sense of being emotionally exhausted)
Conclusions:
When I got to the computer today and saw these words, I was appalled at how negative the participants were! When I categorized the words by positive, negative, and neutral, I found that 6 of the 35 participants, 17%, were positively aimed words. I also noticed that these words were typically the first or second word used in the chain of five, making me think that as soon as someone thought of a negative word, it was hard to get back on the "happy trail." Continuing on, I noticed that 23 words out of the 35, 66%, were negative and that three of these negative words (anger, sad, frustration) were repeated in the list, leading me to believe that they are common emotions felt by the participants. If you do the math, you can figure out that the remaining 6 words were neutral. Based upon these results, I wonder if our society has such a negative impact on us, that we can't even think of five positive words off the top of our heads.
Furthermore, I am going to try to conduct two new (though very similar) experiments, if I am given the resources.
New Experiment 1: I would like to take a class full of people (at least 20) and give them a poll, asking what emotion they are most closely feeling between happy, sad, or neutral, followed by the same prompt that I gave above, to see how the mood they are in affects the words they create.
New Experiment 2: I would like to take a seperate class (of at least 20) and ask them to, in one minute, fill up a side of paper with as many positive words they can think of, and to do the same on the other side (with the same time constraint) with negative words.
I'm curious to use these three experiments together to figure out how the human brain interprets emotions.
(Posted by Vanessa) So what's the difference between emotions and feelings?
(Posted by Sarah Beitzel) AHA! I knew this was coming. Basically, I would say that a physical feeling, such as being sick or numb (not being able to feel your fingers due to cold weather) is different from an emotion. However, an emotion is a WAY THAT YOU feel, not a feeling itself. You can feel sad. But you can't "sad." Make any sense?
(posted by Mr. Gingrich) I did some research to try to find an answer to this....and, bascially, I decided that it depends on who you agree with. In 20 minutes, I found 6 different theories of the difference between feelings and emotions. In my opinion, to make things simple, I'm going to be using the words interchangeably.
(posted by Andrew Martz) I don't agree with you Mr. G. I'm with Sarah. They have two separate meanings, and I don't think they should be interchanged.